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I am starting to see a block that seems like it may be strongly associated with British Isles ancestry. It's the green block that runs from position # 75,919,876 to 76,202,684. It could possibly be associated with German ancestry too, but so far, every contributor who has this block has British Isles ancestry. That it not to say the converse: that every contributor with British Isles ancestry has this block.

Of 83 contributors who reported data for this block, only 4 of them (5%) have this haplotype, and all 4 of them have British Isles ancestry. Of course that's nowhere near enough of a sample to come to any conclusions (especially given how common British Isles ancestry is among DNA testees), but I thought it was an interesting trend that may merit attention as more people contribute their data.

Thank you for your patience waiting for this update, as I have been out of town on a long trip, and am just now getting caught up.

I noted one interesting observation regarding ID070: If you compare his results with those of ID047 for the haploblock candidate that runs from positions 75,003,877 to 76,603,730, these two people are identical, and have a highly unusual haplotype (pay particular attention to the single black-colored SNP and the olive-green block). They are not identical for any other haploblock in the spreadsheet. I compared their raw data from Ben's spreadsheet, and extending the ends of this haploblock, they actually share a 6.64 Mb block, not counting no-calls (the haploblock itself is 1.60 Mb). They obviously share a distant ancestor whose haplotype, with respect to that haploblock, is rare.

Unfortunately, ID047 did not provide any ancestry information with his data submission. That information could be very informative. Ben, if you are reading this, perhaps you could contact him (assuming you still have his contact info) and encourage him to anonymously submit that information to you, and then pass it along to me (or have him contact me directly)?

Just as a side note, I do not routinely extract data from females from Ben's spreadsheet for inclusion in the X-chromosome Project, because the data from females' two X chromosomes is unfortunately too ambiguous and incomplete for it to be of much use in any project data analyses. I will gladly accept data from women who wish to be included for their own purposes, however, upon request.

Due to almost nonexistent participation in this X-DNA forum lately, all future updates to the project's results charts will be announced over at the following dna-forums.org board, until further notice:

I believe that more people will see the updates there. I encourage people to continue to use the WorldFamiles boards for any X-DNA discussions. I have cross-posted this message there, but will not continue to do so after today.